Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] put out " in BNC.

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1 The men of Leicestershire gave the king £100 to have yet another perambulation : he finally conceded in 1235 that that county should be put out of the forest with the exception of the manor of Withcote , which was ancient demesne of the Crown .
2 So the end needle selection cams on punchcard machines should be put out of work .
3 Many services do not need to be provided by local authorities ; they could and should be put out to competitive tender to be provided by private contractors — from refuse collection to school meals provision and old people 's homes .
4 Hair combings from her brush went at once into hiding — a small stoup , designed for Holy Water , concealed their rather sordid twirls — in accordance with the unspoken law that anything ugly should be put out of sight , which applied to more things than hair combings .
5 Food should be put out from autumn to the end of winter , but not in spring and summer .
6 Councillors heard that Homesmith had a good self-build record , but agreed any contract should be put out to tender at a later stage .
7 The fuses must be put out , or the miracle that was happening out there would be useless .
8 His own militancy , he confessed , labelled him to his opponents as " a dangerous person who must be put out of business " .
9 The 1988 Local Government Act also sought to extend the privatization or contracting-out of local authority services by empowering the Secretary of State to specify by regulation local services which must be put out to tender .
10 I mean th it 's Presumably it must be putting out unburned hydrocarbons .
11 Government plans to ‘ market test ’ establishments , investigating which services might be put out to tender , represented ‘ the cutting edge of Government policy to destroy public service and weaken public sector trade unions , ’ he said .
12 Everyone took turns to patrol the streets at night during air raids , and had to be particularly vigilant in the event of firebombs , because if they were on the spot with their fire buckets of sand and water , many a fire could be put out before it got too bad .
13 An alternative might be to just to ask whether some of our membership forms could be put out so that
14 Turned out into the street , most of them , every morning — Cara knew well — while their mothers went to the mill , a ragged band of infant desperadoes , all under the magic age of nine when they too could be put out to labour .
15 Eventually , to the amazement of Murphy and the stable lad , she informed them that the livestock were all in their care until further notice and that the carriage horses could be put out to grass .
16 In London , he had a variety of jobs , including banking and journalism , being a founding member of New Society magazine , later incorporated into the New Statesman , which ironically could be put out of business by Major , who is suing it .
17 And after a number of false dawns , it seems the private insurance industry will shortly be able to offer some sort of long term care insurance product — if it succeeds conventional health and social services could be put out to tender , and perhaps turned into a commercial operation .
18 Yoghurt cartons or cheese boxes may be put out as bases for the dough to be moulded onto as arms , legs , etc .
19 These facts may be put out in a table thus :
20 He was the supreme arbiter of protocol and courtly behaviour , and it was likely that he would be put out , to say the least , by the notion of a Kha-Khan who behaved with such a lack of reserve .
21 Adam Smith believed that competition among capitalists would give the public the opportunity to compare the quality and prices of goods , so that producers who were inefficient or who charged excessive prices would be put out of business .
22 We were being given a marvellous send off by the people there but I was not too sure about the starting pistol that George McGuire was wielding though , maybe I would be put out of my misery sooner than I thought !
23 Sparc International , which is currently at version 8 of the Sparc interface definition , said the 64-bit stuff in version 9 will be just ‘ the tip of the iceberg , ’ and that it would be putting out the new specifications ‘ relatively soon : ’ it still has to go and dig up the stuff from down at Sun Labs .
24 So Yardie sold 10,000 copies in a few months — an unheard of amount for a small press publication — and has now been picked up by Pan Books which will be putting out a mass-market edition in the new year .
25 Team 1 is concentrating on the basement and ground floor , so I want you to go up to the 4th level as team 2 will be putting out the flames on floors 2 + 3 .
26 Chosen services will be put out to franchise , and required standards of ‘ punctuality , reliability and quality ’ will be laid down .
27 The Swiss Post and Telecommunications authority is going to face competition in paging services : the Federal Communications Office has said that two rival paging networks will be set up — the PTT will get one licence , the other will be put out to tender ; licence applications must be in by the end of April .
28 Another example is from region rail which is a totally independent system but over the years the five local authorities have ploughed millions of pounds of investment into improving a system , the stations the track and the rolling stock which in accordance with the Rail Bill will be put out of franchise next year but will anyone have to buy it ?
29 When will the Minister stop the cuts in the defence industry or at least set up a defence diversification agency to help people such as those in Barrow who will be put out of work ?
30 Swindon fans will be put out of their misery at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning .
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